Nutrition Reference Publication
Excerpt: Classic bio-economic approaches have shown their interest but also their limits in helping decisions makers in fishery management. Many authors have emphasized the discrepancy between predictions of these models and current problems mainly dealing with fish resource scarcity and regulation of the fishery sector through the market. Since a decade, other methodologies based on General Equilibrium Modelling applied to the fishery sector have emerged (Bernard, 1998)...
Bibliography: p. 23-25
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Vols. 4-38, 40-41 include Record of political events, Oct. 1, 1888-Dec. 31, 1925 (issued as a separately paged supplement to no. 3 of v. 31-38 and to no. 1 of v. 40).
Government Reference Publication
Excerpt: The National Institute of Justice (NIJ), a component of the Office of Justice Programs, is the research agency of the U.S. Department of Justice. Created by the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, as amended, NIJ is authorized to support research, evaluation, and demonstration programs, development of technology, and both national and international information dissemination. Specific mandates of the Act direct NIJ to: l Sponsor special projects, ...
Legal Reference Publication
Excerpt: This final report consists of an executive summary and introduction, a specified summary of seven research reports already submitted to ESRI highlighting algorithms and issues of implementation as covered in the reports, recommendations, and appendices containing the original reports, flowcharts and GUIs (Appendix 1; Appendix 2). This introduction is divided into two parts: findings and recommendations, and a brief history of the project.
Statistical Reference Document
Introduction: In this paper we consider the optimal smoothing and forecasting of nonstationary time series with trend and seasonal mean value components with stationary covariance. Two classes of smoothness priors trend models are considered. In one the trend is modeled as a stochastically perturbed local polynomial function of time. In the other, the trend is assumed to consist of both the stocchastically perturbed local polynomial component plus a ?global? stationary t...
Excerpt: Estimating Soviet Military Intentions and Capabilities -- Author?s Comments: Raymond Garthoff; The documents in this volume dealing with CIA?s analysis of military affairs during the Cold War were selected with several considerations in mind. First, they provide illustrative examples of analyses of Soviet intentions and military doctrine, as well as of military forces and capabilities. Second, they include materials on strategic forces and theater or general pur...
Bibliography: p.281-304
Preface: The oceanographic databases described by this atlas series greatly expands on the World Ocean Database 1998 (WOD98) product. We have expanded these earlier databases to include data from new instrument types such as profiling floats and new variables such as pCO2 and TCO2. Previous oceanographic databases including the NODC/WDC profile archives, and products derived from these databases, have proven to be of great utility to the international oceanographic, clim...
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Political science
Economic Theory Literature
Excerpt: CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION: THERE is a considerable unanimity of opinion among experts that, from the purely economic point of view, the most general and characteristic phenomenon of a changing society is the ebb and flow of economic life, the alternation of energetic, buoyant activity with a spiritless, depressed and uncertain drifting. During the creative period of the rhythmic change each factor in production receives an augmenting income, and the mutual adjustm...